5. Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man who trusts in manAnd makes flesh his strength,Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,And shall not see when good comes,But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,And whose hope is the Lord.
8. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,Which spreads out its roots by the river,And will not fear when heat comes;But its leaf will be green,And will not be anxious in the year of drought,Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9. “The heart is deceitful above all things,And desperately wicked;Who can know it?
10. I, the Lord, search the heart,I test the mind,Even to give every man according to his ways,According to the fruit of his doings.